Ever since Kim Trager and Lowell Delaney launched their label two years ago, Trager Delaney collections have been premised on some twisty, made-up narrative, usually something like what Roger Corman might have come up with if he was tripping balls one day and decided it'd be fun to edit together a mash-up of The French Connection and Heathers. This season, making their catwalk debut, Trager and Delaney played things quite a bit straighter, taking Russia as a jumping-off point for a collection that was very much about wearable clothes, and color. The Constructivist influence was evident not only in the palette and the Mayakovsky-esque blue-and-white print but also in the way that slashes of color and shape were engineered into the patterns of some of the long dresses. Perhaps the pared-down ethos of Constructivism also inspired this season's simplifications: The emphasis here was on clothes that were wearable and rather matter-of-fact, from a puckered silk seersucker halter dress to a cropped leather jacket tied up in a seemingly offhand manner. There were some flourishes of the totally unexpected, though—like the micro print based on Trager's experience of Spanish molecular gastronomy. Thumbs up to that: Though some additional mainstreaming of the Trager Delaney shapes seems in order, you wouldn't want this duo to play it too straight.